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The Battalion Number 74: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956 Price 5 Cents Ag Quintet Entertains Longhorns Tonight at 8 Downs Major Threat To Upset-Minded Ags By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor Upset-minded A&M tries to bridle the skillful shooting' of Raymond Downs and his tall Texas Longhorns tonight at 8 in White Coliseum in a crucial Southwest Conference encounter. A&M enters tonight’s fracas with a 1-2 slate in confer ence games. The horns stand 0-3 in SWC warfare. Texas, after dropping three straight conference games must win tonight or lose hope of a share in the SWC crown. A&M is also facing a “must” situation, having lost its last two league outings. Led by Downs, a sensational 6-5 forward who makes an art out of scoring, the Steers have won six games and dropped SEASON RECORDS Miss Mathilda Tillie Hollas Aft-gies Named Her ‘Tillie the Toiler’ 6 A Good Place** Visit Here in ’40 Convinced ‘Tillie A&M TEXAS 43 Tulsa . . 48 85 West Texas . .73 69 Vanderbilt . . 79 59 Okla. A&M . . 56 71 Memphis St. . .84 66 Phillips 66 . . .92 73 I ,SXJ . . 59 58 Okla. A&M . . 61 85 Tulane . . . . . . 66 91 Phillips 66 . . .108 44 Houston . . . . .78 83 Auburn . 76 81 Rice .110 86 Mississippi . . .72 59 TOTJ . . 67 66 TCU . ... . 60 49 Arkansas . . . .80 72 Rice .80 90 Baylor . . . . . . 70 71 XJSC . 63 77 Rice . .89 67 'PC IT .73 68 SMU . . 97 63 SMU . 66 67 Arkansas . . . .70 By RALPH COLE Battalion Managing Editor A local business operator who once visited College Station—and liked it—now calls this her home for good. Mathilda Tillie Hollas, owner and operator of the A&M Alteration Shop at the North Gate, visited her brother, who lives in Bryan, and at the suggestion of her mother de cided “this would he a good place to live.” Miss Hollas, an old maid who ‘‘isn’t afraid to admit it,” came here from Weimar, Texas in 1940. She first started working in a cafe for $11 a week and by 1945 was earn ing $15 a week with the same es tablishment. Sorted Pickles Before coming here, Miss Hollas had a job in a pickle factory sort ing number three size pickles from other sizes. After thi’ee years of sorting, salting and packaging pickles, she became a “general flunky” at a hotel in Weimar. “I did everything from cook to woT-k in the office at nights,” the 55-year-old woman said. “I waited tables and ‘slung hash’ for five years,” she added. She was nicknamed “Tillie the Toiler” by Aggies and is quite proud of the honor. Her greatest loves are for football, cooking and crocheting. “I lose my thumb nail every year,” she said. “In 1945, when a lot of sailors and marines were here, I ran a needle through my thumb and ever since I’ve lost my nail every year.” The nail had to be lanced three times in 1954. Miss Hollas says she thinks it is caused by unbut toning so many shirts every year. Serious Operation In 1950, she had a serious opera tion which kept her out of work for three months. A good friend took over the shop until she was able to return. She was in the hospital twice, before the operation, with pneumonia. Tillie started in the alteration business with only one sewing ma chine. She now has a “Necehi Machine” which is used to make stripes and guidons. She has made several flags for diffei’ent outfits over the campus and has (See TILLIE, Page 2) Aggie Players Present Play Next Week “The Importance of Being Earnest” will be presented Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday by The Aggie Players in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom, each performance stai-ting at 8 p.m.. Vic Wiening of the English De partment is directing the play and will take the part of Algernon Mon- crief. C. K. Esten, faculty advisor to the Players, is assistant director. Other, members of the cast are Mai’y Tanguy, Judy Henry, Ken neth George, Chris Pavelka, Don Fishei’, Gene Logan, Hugh Lank- tree and Pete Justice. This Oscar Wilde comedy prom ises to be the most expei’imental theater in the history of the Aggie Players. Rehearsals have been un derway for almost four months. The Aggie Players, with a grow ing membership corresponding to an increasing public response to its dramatic efforts, are in the midst of their most ambitious season. Admission is 50 cents for stu dents and 75 cents for adults. Two Performances Symphony Set Monday Town Hall will present a two- performance engagement of the San Antonio Symphony Orchesti'a Monday, with an aftemoon show for students of Consolidated School, and the regular Town Hall presen tation that night. The matinee will start at 2 p.m., and will be held in Guion Hall. School will be held for all students who do not attend. All children in grades second through fifth will be taken to the program as a part of their school-day activities. Stu dents in grades above the fifth will have to pay 50 cents each. The night show will begin at 8 in White Coliseum. Admission is by Town Hall season tickets or by single admission tickets, now on sale at the Office of Student Ac tivities. Prices ai'e $1 for student general admission and $1.50 for non-students. Reserved seats ai’e $1.50 for students and $2.50 for non-students. The San Antonio Symphony Or chestra, conducted by Victoi' Ales sandro, has gained a reputation for being one of the nation’s leading symphony orchestras. It was 6r- ganized 16 years ago by the late Max Reiter, and since that time has made many appearances. Film Society To Shotv Two Films The MSC Film Society will pre sent two films during the coming weekend. Both pictures will be shown in the MSC ballroom. This evening at 7:30 “With A Song In My Heai't” stax*ring Susan Hayworth will be shown and Sun day afternoon at 2, “On The Riviera” with Danny Kaye in the starring i*ole will be shown. Admission tickets can be pur chased at the door for 25 cents each or season tickets will be hon ored. Weather Today CLEAR Clear and little change in weath er conditions is the forecast for College Station. Yesterday’s high was 60 degi'ees with a low early this morning of 28 degrees. Tem perature at 10:30 a.m. was 49 degrees. The program for the evening show will include Mozart’s “Ovei’- ture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro, “Dance of the Seven Veils from ‘Salome’ ” by Strauss; and Tachai- kowsky’s “Romeo and Juliet, Over- ture-Fantasie.” seven over the season. Cur rently, Downs is third among- loop scorers in both season and conference contests. He has fashioned 317 points in 13 games for a 24 point average. A&M’s George Mehaffey ranks next to the Long-hom marksman in SWC play with 58, good enough for fourth place among the scor ing leaders. Downs is only two points above him with 60. George has dunked 156 points in season action. Coach Ken Loeffler of the Ag gies will use his “multiple defense” system again tonight in an at tempt to curb the high scoring Austonians. A&M will switch from its variety of zone defenses to a man-for-man when the occa sion demands it. “If we’re going to be messed up we might as well mess some body else up too,” grinned Loef fler. Loeffler plans to start the same five that opened against SMU last Tuesday night. Bill Brophy, 6-3, John Fortenberry, 6-2Fritzie Connally, 6-2 ^ Ken Hutto, 6-0, and 6-4 Mehaffey make up the starting aggregation. Besides Downs, the Steers boast a huge 6-10 center in Ellis Olm- stead and two 6-3 men in Norman Hooten and Bill Groogan. Barry Dowd, 6-0, or Kermit Decker, 6-0, rounds out the Longhorn’s No. 1 unit. Tonight’s game will be the 100th meeting between basketball teams representing the two schools. Tex as has posted 66 wins against 33 for A&M since the series began in 1917. Confessed Slayer Faces Grand Jury Edward Menter, confessed slayer of Aggie Senior Jan David Broderick, will go be fore the Grand Jury in Waller County next Wednesday, ac cording to the Hempstead Sheriff’s Office. Menter, a former mental pa tient, is being held in the fa tal shooting which occurred on Dec. 30, near Hempstead. Bro derick was from the Panama Canal Zone. Square Dance, Peanut Sale Set Tomorrow Doors will open at 7:30 to morrow night for the March of Dimes Dance in DeWare Field House. There is no ad mission price and everyone is invited to either participate or come and watch. Two squares of dancers from San Antonio, pupils from Manning- Smith’s classes, some Aggies and a group of pre-school children will put on exhibitions at the dance which starts at 8. Several College Station and Bry an mex-chants have donated refresh ments and concessions, not to be sold but on a voluntary contribu tion basis. Money taken in fi-om contributions at the dance and fox- concessions will go to the local Max-ch of Dimes campaign. J. T. Kent, chairman of the 1956 drive, will expkxin how dimes and dollars are put to use during inter mission at the dance tomorrow night. Those px-esent will have an opportixnity to contribute at .axis time. The Max-ch of Dimes dance or iginated in 1949 at Bryan Field. Each yeax- the contx-ibutions have steadily gx-own and last year, $620 was x-aised for the March of Dimes campaign. The Bryan Yoxxng- Max-ried Coup les Club, Bryan Recx-eational Club, BAFB Club and the Do-Si-Do’s are coopex-ating in holding the dance. Through the united efforts of both Colleg’e Station and Bryan volunteers, peanuts will be sold on downtown Bryan street corners to- morrow. Home-made cakes will be sold at the Ridgecrest Shopping- Centex- Jan. 21. The money will go to the drive. Exam Schedule Final examination schedule for this semester is as follows: Classes meeting WMF8, Monday, 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting TThS8, Monday, 1-4 p. m. Classes nxeetixxg MWF9, Tuesday, 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting MWF1, Txxesday, 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting MWF10, Wednesday, 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting TThl, Wednesday, 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TThSlO, Thursday, 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting MWF2, Thux-sday, 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting MWF11, Fx-iday^ 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting ThSll, Friday, 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TThS9, Satxu-day, 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh2, Saturday, 1-4 p. m. Thomas W. Taylor Struck By Polio What Would Tour Mom Or Gal Say? Civilian students: If you want a beard showing in the Aggieland ’56, don’t read this. All civilian students who plan to be in the beard-grow ing contest for the civilian weekend, and who plan to have their picture in the class sec tion of the yeax* book, should disregai'd the picture sche dule as set up and have then 1 photograph taken immediate ly at the Aggieland Studio- before the chin whiskex-s get too long. To aid the studio, Aggie land Editor Kurt Nauck said that pictures should be made between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, if possible. Look shag’gy for all gener ations—we don’t care. Poll Tax Payment Due Before Jan. 31 Brazos County poll tax must be paid by Jan. 31, according- to Max-- jorie E. Burkhalter, tax collector of Brazos County. The poll tax may be paid in Col- leg-e Station at the Memoi'ial Stu dent Center and, after Jan. 20, at the College Station State Bank. In the MSC the tax may be paid in the Social and Educational De partment from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The tax is $1.75, of which, 50 cents goes to the state, 25 cents to the county and $1 to the county schools. A votex- must pay his poll tax in the county in which he resides in order to vote. Student Struck By Polio; in Austin Hospital A 21-year-old Aggie senior is in critical condition in Breckenridge Hospital at Aus tin, having been struck down with paralytic and bulbar po- io. Thomas William Taylor, building products and marketing majoi- from Rocksprings, was taken to the Austin hospital Wednesday, after Dr. J. E. Marsh, head of the Col lege Hospital, had diagnosed his case as polio, the first case this .year in Braozs County. Taylor, the son of Mx\ and Mrs. Thomas L. Taylor, had gone to Houston last weekend to see his girl friend, and had become ill while there. A doctor in that city told him that he had the flu. His girl friend bx-ought him back to school Tuesday night. He entered the hospital and Di\ Max-sh made his diagnosis Wednesday. Although he is not in a x-espira- tox* at the present, one is being kept close at hand in case it becomes necessary. The x-ight side of his body is pax tially pax-alyzed. Latest word yestex-day on Taylor’s condi tion was that he was doing as well as could be expected, but still is in critical condition. Dr. Marsh said it was a policy of the college hospital to send sex-- iously-ill patients to a specialist, where the proper treatment is available. The Austin hospital had a room and a x-espirator available at the time Taylor became sick, so he was sent there. His parents vyex-e waiting at the hospital when he arrived. A collection for the March of Dimes will be taken up in Taylor’s name dui*ing half-time at Fx-iday night’s basketball game between A&M and the Univei-sity of Texas. CORRECTION The Battalion would like to cox-rect a story which appeared in yesterday’s paper concerning the introduction of gxiest at a Rotary meeting Wednesday. There were 37 persons introduced at the luncheon, 35 of which wex-e sen ior air fox-ce ROTC graduates applying for regular commission. The story said 12 were intro - duced. San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Finis E. Davis Lion’s Chib Speaker ★ Lions Director To Speak Here An ixxternational director of Lions Intei-national is the main speaker of the Mid-Wixxter District 2-S3 confex-ence of the Lions Inter national to be held hex*e Sxxnday. Finis E. Davis, the international dix-ectox-, is fx-onx Louisville, Ky., and has been a dix-ector since July, 1954. He had px-eviously been chaix-man of the Board of Gover nors. Mox-e than 40 Lions Clubs in this district will pax-ticipate in the con- fex-ence which will be held in the Memox-ial Studexxt Center. Charles H. Young, distx-ict governor fx-om Kyle, is in chax-ge of the confex-- ence. Two Sin dents Win Droodle Prizes John S. Wiseman and S. A. (Sandy) Schrieber xecently won $25 cash prizes in the Lucky Strike droodle contests. The i’etailei-s whex-e the winners bought their cigax-ettes wex-e awar ded $10 each. The x-etail px-ize money went to Lipscomb’s Phax-- macy and the Student Centex-. Film Available The filnx, “We Axe the Aggies”, will be available fox- showing to high schools during the between semestex- x-ecess. There ax-e eight prints available fox* booking at any time befox-e the holidays at the Student Activities office, second floox- of Goodwin Hall. Thex-e is no charge fox- this sex-vice.